Thank you, Minister. Member for Hay River South.
Debates of June 2nd, 2020
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. Is there any discussion with Alberta on a potential pipeline down the Mackenzie for moving oil sand oil around? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. At this moment, not that I am aware of. We are not exploring pipelines to Alberta at this time. I think that the department would confirm that. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. With respect to the positions in Inuvik, I had brought this up before, is that, in South Slave and I guess the Deh Cho as well, it would be nice to have somebody look at tying in the communities into natural gas. Assuming that natural gas is probably going to have to come out of Alberta, have we looked at that at all or explored that area? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, our Inuvik office is working on that option, as well. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. Does that include something for Hay River, as well?
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I will pass this to Ms. Strand to provide more information. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Strand
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we have an inventory of wells throughout the territory, and we have not yet done a detailed assessment in the Deh Cho or in the South Slave. That is one area that needs to have some work done to see if there are any suitable sources to provide those resources to the Hay River area. That is part of a study that we would do. We would like to have some buy-in from the regions, as well. We can use some of our petroleum resources strategy funding to move down that avenue. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
[microphone turned off]... the reality is we probably, around the Hay River area, we probably won't find any resources. We would have to bring it in from Alberta or BC. I just want to know if we've looked at that and the cost or feasibility of building a line from the south into Hay River and possibly some of the other smaller communities. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Currently, I don't know if we're looking down that, specifically. It doesn't sound like, from my deputy minister's response, that it is one. Hay River is not a thermal community. A lot of times, we are exploring LNG as an alternate to heavier hydrocarbon-intensive fuels such as diesel. If we have a nonthermal community, I don't believe that the push is there as much for an LNG-type diesel replacement. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm not sure if you're speaking about diesel generation from the Power Corporation or not, or from the Northland, but Hay River is basically on diesel fuel and on propane. What I'm talking about is bringing in natural gas to replace propane and possibly diesel. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. We do have some sources there letting me know some gas options in the southwest of the Northwest Territories. I will come back to the Member with a more fulsome answer on this. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. Probably in the past five years, maybe it was five years ago, there was some work done on some older wells in the Hay River region. Has there been more monitoring of some of those wells and if there looks like there will be any work done on them in the next while? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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